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Absolutely Fantastic

I hear people who simply don't get it with The Duke that he "just plays himself" If I have a chance I ask--- Then John Wayne is a gunfighter, Texas Ranger, Excellent fighter, War Hero, Expert Brawler, Indian Scout, Super horseman ( he just may be! He sits a horse better than I can and I tried to copy his style for years on a horse. This after breaking five horses myself but I just could not get the look or the feel of the horse the way it looks like he has ... My dad who was a true-life Horse Whisperer said that "a man who can sit a horse like John Wayne knows em, and has spent hundreds of hours on em and has finally just given into riding a horse naturally-- He just rides em and forgets that is what he is doing"So John is a superhero? IF his acting is being himself then he truly is exactly what EVERY true man wants to be and should have received even more acclaim than what he did. He was a HUGE help to the war effort even though he never really was a soldier. He was a hero to Native Americans before it was cool to be good to them and he was a man who believed in hard work and was against welfare and a PC world GOOD... Then John Wayne Truly was one of the best actors of all time. Even better than what I rated him before I started taking your view- - he just plays himself!!!..... Welll...... Thanks John. You changed my life when you were alive and you changed it as you passed away-- now you have changed it again LONG after your death. You were my biggest HERO. I love you. I wish you would have taken better care of yourself. I miss you. What I would not give to have a new John Wayne Movie to watch. I wonder what Rhonda Fleming would have been like with him? FIRE? Warren E. Justice

. . . incest, and Indian massacres. As the title character of McLINTOCK!, John Wayne welcomes "Sooners" (or newbie farmers) to his namesake cattle country town because he knows that they'll need to buy all the varieties of his meat. Besides peddling steaks and rump roasts, McLINTOCK's running this hamlet's only bordello (a.k.a., "McLINTOCK Hotel"). His harem of busty trollops is on review here several times, led by the most buxom wrestling his estranged wife (Maureen O'Hara) in a water-filled horse trough. It's no wonder Kate's estranged, since John's McLINTOCK is promoting the breeding of his Real Life son (Patrick) with their film daughter "Becky." Patrick's "Devlin" also is the screen brother to Wayne's Real Life daughter Aissa, which makes his coupling with Becky some sort of double incest. Since McLINTOCK allegedly has a soft spot for the last handful of surviving Commanches, he engineers a suicide charge for them in one of this flick's final scenes, which ends with an overwhelming contingent of U.S. Cavalry being shown herding these men, women, and kids to their Final Destination--ISIS-style. When you throw in all the male-on-female spanking scenes, rolls-in-the-hay, and mud-wrestling to the prostitution, incest, and genocide, you wind up with what passed for a barrel of "Good, Clean, Family Fun" during the Free Love Sixties.

Never before and probably never again - one of the best Western movie brawls ever features John Wayne, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Gordon Jones, Leo Gordon, Patrick Wayne, Strother Martin and even Maureen O'Hara soaked in a mud-hole and enjoying every minute of it. I'm probably missing someone to boot, but as far as raucous, all out fun goes in movie Westerns, this is about as wild as it gets. Whoever got the laundry concession for this picture cleaned up, literally and figuratively. What a mess! I wouldn't doubt that this was one of John Wayne's favorite films and favorite pairings with co-star Maureen O'Hara. O'Hara stands out as the back-East returning wife with a bone to pick with husband McLintock (Wayne), and her brightly colored outfits stand out convincingly against the drab brown backgrounds provided by the town and it's citizens alike. Today, the PC police would be all over this film for it's treatment of women, native-Americans, heck, even the cattle, but when the picture was made America was still pretty much a land where you could make it on your own without government interference promoting itself with a handout instead of a hand up. That message won't be lost on viewers watching today, and for John Wayne fans, this offers The Duke in all his glory.

All the "baddies" are bureaucrats and called Cuthbert and Douglas, and all the "good guys" cowboys, and called Jake and Curly and G.W. (OK, and Devlin); and a fine time is had by all.I'm about as un-Republican as it gets, but this is my favourite John Wayne movie by quite a distance. A few of the jokes are overplayed, but in general it's a-sprawlin', horse-talking', action-filled, spankin' good fun (with a few spankin's thrown in for good measure). The two hours just fly by, and they can be watched more than once.John Wayne proves he had a funny-bone, and Maureen O'Hara matches him word for word and blow for blow; and they're ably supported by a fine cast, the standout of which is Chill Wills as the bewildered sidekick and family retainer.The only real inequality about this movie is that it isn't remembered as 'hers' just as much as 'his'.And in the midst of all this rip-roarin', stereotyped fun, they even had time to portray the Indians as a proud people, shabbily treated by a triumphalist government. That, in my book, offsets its minor drawbacks enough to give it a 10.*This* was the birthplace of Rooster Cogburn.